Show I AT THE ASCOT RACES I I A SALT LAKE GIRL GIVE HER IMPRESSIONS THERE j I I Had an Eye to the Gowns and I I I Thought Them Horrid The Admission Ad-mission was a Pound I I A bright Salt Lake girl who IH 1 spending I the summer abroad recently I attended the races at Ascot and In a I letter to n friend In this city thus dc I bcrlbcs her Impressions of the styles the people and the races I Ve have been to A col Now I hope you will appreciate the full significance sig-nificance of that You will I know when you learn that the bare entrance I I fe was a pound However we did not know It until wo got out there You I I see we found It Interesting to take II r In every phase of Londoners and Lon I I don life and weve been to Epplng i Forest Ilamsload Heath and the Crys j J tal Palace on a bank holiday Then weve been to the Henley regatta and the church parades on Sunday In Hyde park But to see the crome de la ere me the bonton everybody said we must go to Ascot on the gold cup day We decided lo take it In First we found that the fare out here had been doubjcd I0s Gd secondclass That cooled our ardor somewhat but thought as we had missed the Derby we had better go For weeks everything has had something to do with Ascot Everything Every-thing In the shop windows aa placarded pla-carded Fur Aseoi To be worn at the races dc and ihcne l articles were I hats paranoia shoes atocklngs gloves I capfs and any und every kind of a dross that the brains and fingers of f womankind could concoct ISvery bodysdressmakei couldnt do any I thing until after scot The papers were full oC this and that about Lord I I and Lady SoamlSo forming such and sucha parly for Ascot The Duke of was to hold bachelors hall and the moat endless string Imaginable I We chose Thuissday to go on which was the day Trains were leaving Waterloo Wa-terloo station one after another as fast I as they could The place was crowded everywhere with women women women and a good sprinkling of men Perhaps Hit women looked to he sr much In ma Jority on accountof taking up so much I i room Large hats were the order of the day 1 decided not to form any opinion of the gowns at the station for they all wore long silk ulsteis very ugly things and all one could see was hats I ulsters a good lot of silk petticoats and teel and ee I neglected to mention a great deal of blonde and bronze andY and-Y cry much remarkable hair We had decided among ourselves that It wasnt very likely that we I r would see the show for nothing when wo got out there but when we drifted with the crowd und Came to the en trance and found that it was a pound to gut in we sort of lost our footing I nearly made me sick and Cootng big to spoil all the fun but I decided as the money was gone and we were really on Mount Olympus we had bet ter get value received Now you will be surprised when I ask you to believe what I say about the gowns worn but to put It mildly 8011 cent of them were atrocious and no mistake a number were harmless some were pretty gowns on the wrong people but there were very few really lively confections The order of the day seemed for fat red beersoaked looking females to load down In i spangles lace and chiffon and silk and satin of most daring shades Nine out of every ten of the I gowns were what we would consider ball gowns There were > u great many I lace ones over silk and satin chiffons and gauzes ami also let me add there was a good sprinkling of Americans doing the sights In tailormades Evidently most people bought their dresses because they were costly but with a supreme indifference to whether wheth-er their suited their style of beauty or not The men all wore long coals and sik hats We went by the Prince of Waless box seeral times and guess we saw him though I did not know which was he You know he has thousands of doubles As soon us a man here gets somewhat portly and elderly he adopls the Princes style In beard dross etc and the consequence is that In walking down Piccadilly you might wulelnS you were passing Princes of Wales every two minutes The races were pretty nnd rather ex citing but I suppose you have read all the details The American Jockey Tod Sloan won three races The most amusing of the whole show was the betting place The men who took the bets were In pairs and were dressed In checks and plaids that were louder than a thunderstorm They were the horsiestlooking crea < Ief tures you could Imagine und their faces went so well with their suits that I am sure they were all bt > rn to the profession In speaking of the fat beerylook big women I dont want you to think they were of the aristocracy Of course anybody with the price could go to Ascot and 1 suupect a good go sIupect sooc part of the crowd there was made up of rich publicans wives etc it certainly wasnt all unalloyed aristocracy Last Sunday r was what they call Ascot Sunday In Hyde park and acer church the people walk out In their Ascot dresses There was a tremendous tre-mendous Jam there and silk and lacer and Jewels galore and T considered It surprisingly bad tauto to tog out like tot l > that for church und pauulo and every Sunday during the season it Is quite as bad badDay Day after tomorrow Te are going to Oxford and StratfordonAvQii and perhaps Warwick and Kenllworth curs tles Wu expect to spend the night cal In nlght the little old Shakespearean hotel |